Please read previous comments before continuing on the same tangent. As someone said, there's an easier to use display panel in RH8 than Windows.
Also, could you please enlighten us as to what this custom hardware is? Did your company make it? If so, then there's someone in your company that can write linux drivers in a short amount of time. If not, there are probably already drivers.
There are Linux distros out there that look like, act like, even run Windows apps. And you said yourself that all you do is basically use Office and browse the web. In that case, ignoring that it actually is easy to install apps on linux, why would you even need to know how to?
Just hire someone to set you up a single box the way you like it with an office suite and web browser, and you can image it to the rest of them. Your incomprehensible perception of installing Linux is reduced to popping in a cd and waiting 10 minutes, at the worst. And don't go ranting about the multi-thousands of dollars it would take for you to hire someone, my company would do it for $75 an hour, on site. The whole thing would cost you less than a copy of Windows.
That refers to Programmed I/O transfers, aka non-DMA. The fastest form of PIO transfers is Mode 4, which supports a maximum of 16.6MB/sec.
Keep in mind though that such a drive on a USB2 bus will completely saturate it... you'll probably want that drive on it's own root hub if you use anything more than maybe a mouse and keyboard.
I've never heard that, but everything seemed pretty feasable to me, I'm curious about the egg-radiator-patch thing though. I'd assume it would just muck up and swirl around rather than actually going to the hole, but I could be wrong. I don't know what you mean about the gate thingy, I havn't seen all the episodes. (Does it still air in the US? What station, time?)
Believe it or not there are real uses for P2P, even at school. I remember looking for things on the gnutellanet like research relating to ZSW's and various other obscure particle physics things that were nowhere to be found on the web.
By no means listen to the firewall nazis here that say "AUGH! No! Firewall everything but 80 and filter even that to death!"
I mean, if you're the one in class and need some hard to find information, would you rather search it to death or hop on IRC and ask somebody that does it for a living? So with all that said, I'll throw out my run of the mill solution: block nothing at all, but make it horribly unbearable to do anything w4r3z d00d with, i.e. kill sockets that have been open for a long time or P2P ports, say 20 meg or so, drop random packets, cause timeouts, whatever, but after most everything non-school related starts failing, most people will get the point and everything will speed up.
I think even making what you do clear to everybody wouldn't be a bad idea. Say a student needs a huge simulation dataset or a teacher needs a DivX movie to show in class (assuming you have permission, of course, the video store's just.. out of stock:P), they can ask you to open that machine (watch it while it's fully open, though)
I really don't want to pull an AOL 'me too' with this, but you've really said everything that I was going to already.
So, I'm just going to say 'your opinion has been reenforced with that of mine' and 'Whoa, s/he really freaks me out. I hope s/he doesn't really treat kids like this.'
Great points on all, gimpboy. Also, has anyone else sensed the irony that a person that supports digital fair use also apparently supports removing all childrens' rights?
Hey, here's a unique thought: rather than burying rights, why not take an active part in your kids' life, and teach them that blowing crap up in the Real World is bad, and video games wouldn't be an issue here.
Just because laws like these might make your life easier and might let you slack on properly raising your kids even more -- doesn't by any means make them right.
As an analogy to something you do support, it's the same kind of thinking that got us the DMCA -- corporations were thinking "Hey, lets get together this set of laws that we can use to ban just about everything! That way, we won't have to come up with a real reason when we want to say something is wrong and makes our jobs harder!"
I actually think this is a great idea, i.e. judging what people are or aren't allowed to do based on their individual abilities rather than on predefined limits such as age, but pretty big problems would no doubt come up with the method. That's certainly not saying it wouldn't be better than a legislation that just outright prohibits things based on properties people have no control of (age) vs. things they do (morals of right/wrong in meatspace).
I'll agree with the AC on this but I'll put it a bit more intelligently. The person in question here specifically stated that they're not from the US and it can be inferred that their primary language isn't English. If you can't contribute anything other than anal pedancy to the conversation, than you've got a far greater challenge proving to me you're educated than someone who presents a valid point of view and has a good mastery of a very difficult to learn second language, can you say the same about Mandarin or Japanese (admittedly easier to learn than English)?
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And 640K is enough for anybody?
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Also, could you please enlighten us as to what this custom hardware is? Did your company make it? If so, then there's someone in your company that can write linux drivers in a short amount of time. If not, there are probably already drivers.
There are Linux distros out there that look like, act like, even run Windows apps. And you said yourself that all you do is basically use Office and browse the web. In that case, ignoring that it actually is easy to install apps on linux, why would you even need to know how to?
Just hire someone to set you up a single box the way you like it with an office suite and web browser, and you can image it to the rest of them. Your incomprehensible perception of installing Linux is reduced to popping in a cd and waiting 10 minutes, at the worst. And don't go ranting about the multi-thousands of dollars it would take for you to hire someone, my company would do it for $75 an hour, on site. The whole thing would cost you less than a copy of Windows.
Any further questions?
That refers to Programmed I/O transfers, aka non-DMA. The fastest form of PIO transfers is Mode 4, which supports a maximum of 16.6MB/sec. Keep in mind though that such a drive on a USB2 bus will completely saturate it... you'll probably want that drive on it's own root hub if you use anything more than maybe a mouse and keyboard.
I've never heard that, but everything seemed pretty feasable to me, I'm curious about the egg-radiator-patch thing though. I'd assume it would just muck up and swirl around rather than actually going to the hole, but I could be wrong. I don't know what you mean about the gate thingy, I havn't seen all the episodes. (Does it still air in the US? What station, time?)
Did you not read the ..."the original Mission:Impossible series (not the 90's version show or the Cruise vehicles)"... part?
I know people think that there's nothing we can do, but geez, we can think of something.
I'll go with the Letterman thing, but there's something to be said for mostly-bad US animation :P
There's pretty much nothing good left on US cable. First Seaquest gone, then Sliders, now Farscape and the anime. Oh, the horror.
I'll definitely second that, I'll trade anything we get here for Neon Genesis.
Exactly how often have you had a heatsink fall off? Yes, fans die, but in all cases I've seen they die slowly and with a horrible grinding noise.
One thing I do wish AMD stuck with was an IHS, though. Not the K6 kind either, I'll give the P4 points for that.
No it doesn't. It looks like a duck and barks like a duck. If you were a CD-ROM drive, you'd be pretty freaked, too.
By no means listen to the firewall nazis here that say "AUGH! No! Firewall everything but 80 and filter even that to death!"
I mean, if you're the one in class and need some hard to find information, would you rather search it to death or hop on IRC and ask somebody that does it for a living? So with all that said, I'll throw out my run of the mill solution: block nothing at all, but make it horribly unbearable to do anything w4r3z d00d with, i.e. kill sockets that have been open for a long time or P2P ports, say 20 meg or so, drop random packets, cause timeouts, whatever, but after most everything non-school related starts failing, most people will get the point and everything will speed up.
I think even making what you do clear to everybody wouldn't be a bad idea. Say a student needs a huge simulation dataset or a teacher needs a DivX movie to show in class (assuming you have permission, of course, the video store's just.. out of stock :P), they can ask you to open that machine (watch it while it's fully open, though)
So, I'm just going to say 'your opinion has been reenforced with that of mine' and 'Whoa, s/he really freaks me out. I hope s/he doesn't really treat kids like this.'
Hey, here's a unique thought: rather than burying rights, why not take an active part in your kids' life, and teach them that blowing crap up in the Real World is bad, and video games wouldn't be an issue here.
Just because laws like these might make your life easier and might let you slack on properly raising your kids even more -- doesn't by any means make them right.
As an analogy to something you do support, it's the same kind of thinking that got us the DMCA -- corporations were thinking "Hey, lets get together this set of laws that we can use to ban just about everything! That way, we won't have to come up with a real reason when we want to say something is wrong and makes our jobs harder!"
I actually think this is a great idea, i.e. judging what people are or aren't allowed to do based on their individual abilities rather than on predefined limits such as age, but pretty big problems would no doubt come up with the method. That's certainly not saying it wouldn't be better than a legislation that just outright prohibits things based on properties people have no control of (age) vs. things they do (morals of right/wrong in meatspace).
I'll agree with the AC on this but I'll put it a bit more intelligently. The person in question here specifically stated that they're not from the US and it can be inferred that their primary language isn't English. If you can't contribute anything other than anal pedancy to the conversation, than you've got a far greater challenge proving to me you're educated than someone who presents a valid point of view and has a good mastery of a very difficult to learn second language, can you say the same about Mandarin or Japanese (admittedly easier to learn than English)?
What did you say?
*glee* At least Amiga will never die.
Thanks for the ride, Be, it was a great one. You will be missed.
*walks out grumbling a crude statement involving Palm*